Thursday, March 19, 2009

Eight months


Baby should be able to
  • Bear some weight on legs- she pulls herself up and plops and does it again.
  • Feed self a cracker- this is an entirely subjective idea. Yes the cracker is in the hand and she can transfer it to her mouth. However, she doesn't actually consume any of the cracker, she just chews off little chunks and spreads them across the floor.
  • Pick up things with a fist- yes.
  • Turn towards voices- yes.
  • Look for a dropped object- usually.
Baby will probably be able to
  • Pass objects from hand to hand- yep. She's learning that you can hold one object per hand, too. Once they are all full, you are going to have to drop something.
  • Stand holding onto something or someone- yep.
  • Object if you try to take a toy away- she mostly just tries even harder to get the toy.
  • Work to get a toy that is out of reach- yep
  • Play peekaboo- she doesn't cover her eyes, it that is what this book is referring to.
  • Go from belly to sitting- yep and then back to her belly
Baby may possibly be able to
  • Creep or crawl- every day she is getting faster and faster
  • Pull into a standing position from sitting- she started doing this right after crawling. I think she had a day or so in between.
  • Pincher grasp- not really.
  • Say mama or dada indiscriminately- it usually comes out 'mamamamama' or 'dadadada' there are a couple just mama or dada in there, though.
Baby may even be able to
  • Play patty-cake- she thinks clapping her hands is pretty spiffy. But it is rare that she remembers that she can do it. She prefers to clap my hands for me.
  • Cruise- nope. She does lift her feet when she is holding on to things.
  • Stand alone momentarily- she pretty much falls down as soon as she lets go.
  • Understand 'no'- no.

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Clothing


Sean dressed Lillian today. Can you tell?

Monday, March 16, 2009

Silly baby

I love my baby. Don't get me wrong. But sometimes I worry about her.

Is she suicidal? Does she not care about the bumps on her head?

Look at her, she wants to climb onto the end table. I didn't get any pictures of her almost there since I was busy trying to keep her from falling. I let her touch the end table, but not actually get on it. I don't want to be one of those parents that crush their kids dreams, but there has to be limits. You don't just roll around on end tables. It isn't normal.

This morning she told me off in her adorable little baby language. She wanted to launch herself off of the bed head first and I wouldn't let her.

Sean took me out to see Watchmen and have a nice Lillian-less dinner. The food was wonderful. Having a night out makes you appreciate having the baby around that much more. You miss all of the cuddles and smiles and freaking out because she pulled herself up, but hasn't figured out how to get back down yet.


Saturday, February 28, 2009

New Crib


We cleaned out the spare bedroom and put in a new crib (Graco Jason crib) and a dresser. Nothing matches. It makes me sad, but I hope that she won't be using the crib for too long.

She's been sleeping pretty well in the crib other than the fact that she gets rather cold.
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Friday, February 13, 2009

Moments


So, I was changing Lillian's diaper. Dirty diaper is off and I'm getting the clean one ready to go on. I look into her eyes and she has this 'I love you' look and I get this feeling of all is right with the world. I have this little being that loves me and depends on me for absolutely everything, and goodness... I love her, too! and I'll do my best to take care of her needs. And I can see her heart beating.
And then she peed everywhere.

Monday, February 9, 2009

Park

We went to the park last night. It was a lot of fun. I expect that as Lillian gets older, she will love this park. Right now the real coolness was for us, the adults. There were multiple slides, rock climbing walls, musical pipes to hit and a thing you stand on and shift your weight around and spin. This is our park going outfit:

We think we are really cute. We are!

Monday, February 2, 2009

Grumpies








Lillian has started to make 'wtf mom' faces for the camera. I thought I would share some. In the top one, I really think she is plotting my demise.
We went down to Houston this weekend to visit friends. The trip was good, Lillian slept the entire way down. Unfortunately, she only slept half the way back. We had to stop at Denny's because she would just not calm down. But after that, she slept the remaining half hour.
She has started doing so many amazing things recently. She can sit up on her own unassisted and roll both directions. Unfortunately, she just rolls as she feels like it, not with any purpose or direction. So, she'll roll away from me and then look at me and start whining because I'm too far away. She doesn't roll back, she just freaks out and I have to go rescue her. Silly baby.